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A study to assess the nutritional gaps in Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiary households

MSC’s report examines the PDS food basket and the dietary intake of beneficiary households. We also suggest ways to increase the nutritional efficiency of various government programs to improve the overall nutritional outcome.

Jan 28, 2020

Puneet Khanduja, Neha Parakh, Mitul Thapliyal and Vijay Ravi

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PDS portability: Reforms that empower the people

Based on findings from MSC’s diagnostic study on the IM-PDS program, this note examines portability in the public distribution system as a reform to strengthen government service delivery in India

Jan 10, 2020

Arshi Aadil, Anusha Jain and Sneha Sampath

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CICO Economics in Indonesia

MSC and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) conducted a study on the economics of Cash-In/Cash-Out (CICO) agent networks in Indonesia. The objective of this study was to generate actionable insights to build more sustainable CICO networks in a country that has over a million agents from both banks and non-banking organizations.

Dec 6, 2019

MSC

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First insights: Landscape of Climate and Disaster Risk Insurance (CDRI) in Asia and the Pacific

The report presents an analysis of the current status of climate and disaster risk insurance (CDRI) in the Asia Pacific region with a greater focus on four key markets of Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam because of their high vulnerability to disasters

Nov 4, 2019

MSC

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Direct Benefit Transfer in Fertilizer: Fourth round of concurrent evaluation—A nationally representative study

NITI Aayog engaged MSC in a nationally representative study on DBT in fertilizer. This report provides details of the on-the-ground realities of DBT-F implementation and makes actionable recommendations to improve the DBT-F system further.

Oct 22, 2019

Anurodh Giri, Ritesh Rautela, Saborni Poddar, Karthick Morchan, Vikram Sharma, Mitul Thapliyal and Puneet Khanduja

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Experimenting with cash transfers in food subsidies – Lessons from the pilot in Nagri

This case study discusses a unique experiment of distributing food subsidy in the Nagri block of Ranchi district. The document discusses the learnings and insights from the pilot that governments can use to inform future experimentation in food subsidy delivery.

Oct 22, 2019

Anurodh Giri, Ritesh Rautela, Vikram Sharma, Sneha Sampath and Mitul Thapliyal

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